Gregory Porter: Be Good

Yosuke Sato | Tivon Pennicott | Emmanuel Harold | Kamau Kenyatta | Keyony Harrold | Gregory Porter | Aaron James | Chip Crawford

Music industry clichés are kicked into touch here by what is not so much the difficult second album as the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2012

Ron Carter: Ron Carter’s Great Big Band

Alex Norris | Steve Davis | Charles Pillow | Doug Purviance | Jason Jackson | Lewis Nash | Mulgrew Miller | Greg Gisbert | Wayne Escoffery | Tony Kadleck

Released in time for his 75th birthday in May, this initially seems a surprising entry from the always adventurous Carter....

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2012

Kristian Borring: Nausicaa

Arthur Lea | Spencer Brown | Will Vinson | Kristian Borring | Jon Scott

This young London-based, Danish guitarist-composer attended the Amsterdam Consevatorium, then studied at the Guildhall and has been a sideman for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Hanne Hukkelberg: Featherbrain

This Norwegian lo-fiavant pop singersongwriter has Björk as inspiration but with an unusually intriguing sound of her own on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Dieter IIg: Otello Live at Schloss Elmau

Dieter Iig | Patrice Heral | Rainer Böhm

Verdi’s —opera Otello contains one of the greatest bass lines in the classical repertoire, which sounds out in the fourth...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2012

Album Interview: Vijay Iyer Trio: Accelerando

Marcus Gilmore | Vijay Iyer | Stephan Crump

The Vijay Iyer trio has the potential to alter the scope, ambition and language of jazz piano forever, and with...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: March/2012

Bob Thompson: His Orchestra And Chorus

West Coast arranger Thompson integrated a vocal section with his all star big band and created some of the most...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Freddie Redd/Cecil Payne & Kenny Drew: Music From The Connection

Benny Green | Milt Hinton | Charlie Persip | Freddie Redd | Clark Terry | Cecil Payne | Gus Johnson | Tina Brooks | Duke Jordon | Ron Carter

A group of actual top draw jazz musicians were an integral part of the cast of Jack Gelber's controversial ‘drugs’...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012

Dylan Cramer: Remembering Sonny Criss

Dylan Cramer | John Nolan | Leroy Vinnegar | Ron Johnston

Can that be the wondrous walking bass of Leroy Vinnegar? It certainly can, and the presence of this West Coast...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: March/2012

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Goes To Junior College

The sequel to the hit LP Jazz Goes To College, this is the Brubeck/Desmond combination on top form, live in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012